Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-08
General 11eps.
DOMESTIC.

f'N'' ''"y 4 oiiiSif u hVtN' NOhSiNS
tionaist divine, is dead at Newark N. j.
Joseph II. Bradley, an eminent lawyer,
died at Washington on Sunday, aged 81
years.
Twenty-Five of the Chicago "boodlers"
have been indicted and have given bonds
ranging from $1,000 to ST., 900 each
John Talbot, noted burglar and rob-
der, who is wanted in several cities, was
captured in New York Thursday night.
An express messenger on the West
Shore road was shot and the car rob-
bed the other night not far from Utica.
Ny
Six thousand Chicago carpenters and
day for eight hours per day and 30 cents
per hour.
Several arrests have been made in Cal
ifornia for alleged completely in the
fraudulent land surveys, by which the
federal government was defrauded out
of large sums.
game wardens, was caught in the post
office at Oakland, Cal. He called there
for letters, though employed in a hotel
500 miles away.
The reports from the winter wheat
growing States are still of favorable
tenor, the majority of the returns indcat-
ing that the fall sown grain is in the full
average of condition.
1t is now believed that there will be no
necessity to enforce the retaliatory law
against Canada, owing to a supposed
agreement between the United States and
Great Britain.
The New York Daily Commercial Bull
letin estimates the fire losses in the United
States and Canada in March at Sl0,450,-
: 900. or about SO 100000 above the March
average for the past 10 or II years.
Twenty thousand dollars have been
pledged toward the endowment of pro-
fessorship at Amherst college in memory
of Mr.. Beecher, who graduated there in
: 1884. 1t is proposed to raise 600
l Joseph Somers, a telegraph operator at
Brooklyn, fell and broke his neck on
7 October 3. He has been under treatment
J in hospital ever since, and died Tuesday
retaining his mental activity until the end
9 The Hotel del Monte, near Monterey,
| California, was burned Friday night The
5 house was full of New England excur-
sionists. all of whom fortunately escaped
5 unframed, but in many instances minus
. their effects.
A. NJ. Stanton, manager of George X
Sistare's Sons bank at Detroit. Mich.
has abscOnded with between $4,000 and
> the Detroit branch of the bank and the
: balance was secured by means of tictitiou.
1 orders sent to the firm in New York.
Startling Developments in regard tc
undervauations are expected to be made
= soon. Consul Merritt, at AK la Chapelle
, Germany, is in this country on leave OF
1 absence, which, it is suspected, relates tt
Il this business of differentiation, which he
| HIS lcttCltu at Ills SldllOIl.
a registered package from Portland
Ore, containing $4,000 was missed a
the New York post-otfice, the other day
and w. \. Clarke, clerk, was arrested
He has confessed and also says he stol,
- Il package containing $4,000 in currency
II sent to Charleston, 5. c., in December
I. 1881.
Three months ago James Stuart of Con
e way, Mass, made an agreement with tn
temperance people that if his expected
II heir should be girl he would vOt
o against granting licenses. He voted IN,
&c license" on Saturday, and his ballot de
e cided the action of the town on the liquo
IS question.
A terrible explosion Tuesday at Savan
ma, Indian territory, killed six miners.
20 rescuing party was sent down into tn
mine, but they were overpowered by ga
and II were suffocated before they cOul
be taken out, making Is dead in all. Mos
of the victims are Italians.
-; The remains of John Godfrey SAKE, tn
, humorous poet, were conveyed frol
-, Albany Tuesday to burial in Greenwood
, cemetery, beside those of his wife AN
e three daughters. A plain obeisk, erect
ed by his order some years ago, mark
the lot, and his name and fame will b
= carved upon it.
~ Ex-senator Angus Cameron's wife trie
to drown herself in the river at Lacrosse
: Wis, on a recent evening. She was re:
:, cued. Mrs. Cameron sustained an il
10 jury to her spine in collision on tn
40 Brooklyn and New York ferry som
no years ago, from the effects of which sl
= has never fully recovered.
81 \ disease embracing many symptor
n of pneumonia and pleurisy has become S
ia fatal in the vicinity of Cape Nav, n. j